Vanguard Telecommunications, Inc. v. Southern New England Telephone Company Csx Corporation, and Lightnet

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that to rule in favor of the plaintiff would require the court “to enlarge [its] role from contract construction to contract reformation”
• recognizing the “very complex and troublesome” issue, but “declin[ing] to wade into this morass”
• entity that had no part in negotiations was not the efficient procuring cause of the transaction
• district court’s decision to deny the amendment, in part, on the basis that the amendment would not survive a motion for summary judgment was affirmed because the decision to enter summary judgment was appropriate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).